Goutham Kumar's BLOG: Stuttgart Trip

Stuttgart is located in southern Germany know for Mercedes Benz. Birth place for the bullet trains and Mercedes Benz.

We planned to myself, my wife and other colleagues here had planned a two day trip to Wurzburg and Hohenzollern Castle. we planned only stay in Stuttgart as it was mid way between Wurzburg and Hechingen the small town near the castle.

Day One:
We started on Saturday 18 October 2008, we had booked tickets to Wurzburg and ICE (f trains) it a 3 hour journey from Dusseldorf. we started at 6:06 am early morning and reached at 9:05 am. After we got down the Wurzburg station we came out and entered a tram to reach The Residenz as we got the info from net. But to double check we asked the tram driver whether the tram goes to the place he told that its walkable, hence we got down and started walking the place was around 1.5 km from the station. We went to the Residenz and took a tour for 4 Euro per person. We went around the Palace and after that we went to the park that is in the backyard. Took couple of snaps and then went to the Fortress Marienberg we got Bus no 9 around 12:30 pm in front of the Residenz which took us directly to the fort(Last stop). The fort is very big one and one of must to see places in Wurzburg. After some spending time emptied our boxes and then started walking down towards the Old Alter Bruck. Then we saw the dom and took a tram again to the Main station. At evening 4:00 pm we started back to Stuttgart as our hotel accommodation was booked in Stuttgart. We stayed in Hotel Golden Leaf. After reaching Stuttgart we took a group ticket for local travel. got into S6 to Zuffenhausen. The hotel is around ten minutes walk from the station but as we were confused we had to struggle a bit to reach the hotel.

After reaching hotel couple of us came to take something to eat we also bought a small cake to Celebrate my birthday. Night we celebrated my Birthday and then we slept.

Day Two;
We had plans of starting at 8:22 am but postponed it to 10:16 am connection there are only two connections from Stuttgart to reach the Hohenzollern Castle. we got into the RE and something funny happened with us we had to change the compartment of the train at Tübingen but we were playing cards inside the same compartment till the DB guy came and told that we need to change. But by the time it was too late and we had to catch the next connection to Hechingen. But our bus to castle is missed so we called a taxi and went in the taxi and we paid 12 Euro. The taxi or bus goes only till the parking area of the castle and one has to take a shuttle from there by paying Euro 1,70. The entrance to Hohenzollern castle entrance fee is 4 Euro and if you want to take a guided tour then 4 Euro more. we had a nice time at castle enjoyed the breath taking views and started walking down to parking lot to catch our bus back to Hechingen station at 3:55 pm. We reached Stuttgart at 5:45 pm since we had enough time to our train back to Dusseldorf we decided to go to Schlossplatz Live cam which is a 10 min walk from Hauptbahnhof. We spent near the palace square till 7:45 pm and came back to the Station our trin stated at 8:22 pm and we reached Dusseldorf at 12:38 am.

Snaps from the Trip:

Residenz